Persons

    • Abshire, David M., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from April 8, 1970
    • Agnew, Spiro T., Vice President of the United States from January 20, 1969
    • Aichi Kiichi, Japanese Foreign Minister until July 5, 1971
    • Aldrich, George H., Acting Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State, from January until October 1969; Deputy Legal Adviser
    • Barger, Herman H., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from 1970
    • Barnett, Robert W., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Economic Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from February 1963 until May 1970
    • Bergsten, C. Fred, member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1971
    • Brewster, Robert C., Deputy Executive Secretary, Department of State, from July 1969 until August 1971
    • Brown, Winthrop G., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until April 1972
    • Bundy, William P., Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 4, 1969
    • Burns, Dr. Arthur F., Counselor to the President from January 1969 until January 1970; Chairman, Federal Reserve System Board of Governors, from 1970
    • Bush, George H.W., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R–Texas) until January 1970; Representative to the United Nations from February 16, 1971
    • Butterfield, Alexander P., Deputy Assistant to the President from 1969
    • Butz, Earl L., Secretary of Agriculture from December 1971
    • Cargo, William I., Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, from August 4, 1969
    • Chafee, John H., Captain, USN; Secretary of the Navy from January 31, 1969, until May 4, 1972
    • Chapin, Dwight L., Special Assistant to the President from 1969 until 1971; Deputy Assistant to the President from 1971
    • Chapin, Frank, member, National Security Council staff and staff secretary to the 303/40 Committee
    • Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), President of the Republic of China; Director-General, Kuomintang
    • Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai), Premier of the People’s Republic of China; member, Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Political Bureau
    • Chow Shu-kai (Zhou Shukai), Chinese Ambassador to the United States until May 1971; Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1971 until 1972; Minister without Portfolio from 1972
    • Chung Il-Kwon, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea until December 19, 1970
    • Cleveland, Paul M., Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from September 1968 until February 1970; Special Assistant and Staff Director, NSC Interdepartmental Group, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, February 1970 until July 1973
    • Cline, Ray S., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from October 26, 1969
    • Connally, John B., Jr., Secretary of the Treasury from February 1971 until May 1972
    • Cronk, Edwin M., Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Trade Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from October 1969 until June 1972; U.S. Ambassador to Singapore from June 27, 1972
    • Curran, Robert Theodore, Deputy Executive Secretary, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, from August 1970 until September 1972; Deputy Director of Personnel for Management from September 1972
    • Davis, Jeanne W., Director, Staff Secretariat from 1970 until 1971; Staff Secretary, National Security Council Staff Secretariat, from 1971
    • De Palma, Samuel, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from February 7, 1969
    • Denney, George C., Jr., Deputy Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until April 1970; Deputy Director, Directorate for Management, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, April 1970
    • Donelan, Joseph F., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Administration from June 14, 1971
    • Doolin, Dennis J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs responsible for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
    • Douglas-Home, Sir Alexander Frederick, British Foreign Secretary from June 19, 1970
    • Eagleburger, Lawrence S., member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1970
    • Eberle, William D., Special Representative for Trade Negotiations from 1971 until 1975; member, Council on International Economic Policy, from 1971
    • Ehrlichman, John D., Counsel to the President from January until November 1969; Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs from November 1969
    • Eliot, Theodore L., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary and Executive Secretary of the Department of State from August 10, 1969
    • Ericson, Richard A., Jr., Country Director Japan, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from July 1970
    • Finn, Richard B., Country Director Japan, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from January 1969 until July 1970
    • Flanigan, Peter, Consultant to the President on Administration and Staffing, January 20, 1969, until April 15, 1969; Assistant to the President and Executive Director, Council for International Economic Policy from February 1972
    • Ford, Gerald R., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R–Michigan); House Minority Leader
    • Froebe, John A., Jr., Desk officer, Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State; member, National Security Council staff from 1971
    • Froehlke, Robert F., Captain, USA; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Administration from January 1969 until June 1971; Secretary of the Army from July 1, 1971
    • Fukuda Manabu, Department of State interpreter
    • Fukuda Takeo, Japanese Foreign Minister from July 5, 1971, until July 7, 1972
    • Fulbright, J. William, Senator (D–Arkansas), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
    • Gandhi, Indira, Indian Prime Minister
    • Getz, John I., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Department of State, from January 1969 until February 1972
    • Gleysteen, William H., Jr., Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, from September 1969 until June 1971; Deputy Chief of Mission, Taipei, from June 1971
    • Godley, George McMurtrie, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 1969; U.S. Ambassador to Laos from June 13, 1969
    • Grant, Lindsey, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia, from February 1969 until August 1970; member, Planning and Coordination Staff, Department of State, from June 1971 until November 1972
    • Green, Marshall, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from May 1, 1969
    • Gromyko, Andrei A., Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union
    • Habib, Philip C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs until May 1969; member, U.S. Delegation to meetings on Vietnam in Paris until October 1971; U.S. Ambassador to Korea from September 30, 1971
    • Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr., Major General, USA; Senior Military Assistant to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from June 1969 until June 1970; Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from June 1970
    • Haldeman, H.R., Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff from January 20, 1969
    • Halperin, David, member, National Security Council staff 1971
    • Halperin, Morton, National Security Council Assistant for Programs, 1969 and 1970
    • Handley, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs until April 1969; U.S. Ambassador to Turkey from May 1, 1969
    • Hannah, John A., Administrator, Agency for International Development, from March 28, 1969
    • Hardin, Clifford M., Secretary of Agriculture from January 1969 until December 1971
    • Harlow, Bryce N., Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations from 1969 until 1970; Counselor to the President from 1970
    • Heath, Edward, British Prime Minister from June 19, 1970
    • Helms, Richard M., Director of Central Intelligence
    • Herz, Martin F., Political Counselor in Saigon to June 1970; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Department of State, from June 1970
    • Ho Chi Minh, President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
    • Hodgson, James D., Secretary of Labor from July 1970
    • Holdridge, John Herbert, Director, Office of Research and Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, until July 1969; member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia from July 1969
    • Hormats, Robert, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/International Economic Affairs from 1970 until 1972
    • Howe, Jonathan T., Lieutenant Commander, USN; member, National Security Council staff from 1970 until 1972
    • Hughes, Thomas L., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State, from April 28, 1963
    • Hummel, Arthur W., Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Burma until July 22, 1971; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from February 1972
    • Ingersoll, Robert Stephen, U.S. Ambassador to Japan from February 29, 1972
    • Irwin, John N., II, Under Secretary of State from September 18, 1970, until July 12, 1972; Deputy Secretary of State from July 13, 1972 (Note: The Foreign Affairs Reauthorization Act of 1972 created the position of Deputy Secretary, replacing the Under Secretary post as the second-ranking officer in the Department.)
    • Jenkins, Alfred le Sesne, Director, Office of Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from July 1970
    • Jiang Jieshi, see Chiang Kai-shek
    • Johnson, Lyndon B., President of the United States until January 20, 1969
    • Johnson, U. Alexis, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from February 7, 1969
    • Jurich, Anthony J., Special Assistant to the Secretary for National Security Affairs, Department of the Treasury
    • Karamessines, Thomas H., Deputy Director for Plans (Note: Title changed to Deputy Director for Operations after Karamessines’ tenure)
    • Katz, Julius L., Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Resources and Food Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
    • Kendall, Donald M., President and CEO of Pepsi-Cola (renamed Pepsi Co); friend of Richard Nixon; Chairman of the Emergency Committee for American Trade
    • Kennedy, David M., Secretary of the Treasury from January 1969 until January 1971; Ambassador at Large for Foreign Economic Development from February 11, 1971; Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from March 17, 1972
    • Kennedy, Richard, Colonel, USA; member, National Security Council staff from 1970 until 1972; Director of the National Security Council Planning Group in 1971 and 1972
    • Khan, Agha Muhammad Yahya, President of Pakistan from March 31, 1969, until December 20, 1971
    • Kim Il-sung (Kim Il Sung), Premier (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea until December 28, 1972; President (Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly) of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from December 28, 1972; and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea
    • Kishi Nobusuke, former Japanese Prime Minister
    • Kissinger, Henry A., Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from January 20, 1969
    • Klein, Herbert G., White House Director of Communications from January 1969
    • Kleindienst, Richard G., Deputy Attorney General from January 1969; Attorney General from February 1972
    • Kosygin, Alexei N., Chairman, Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
    • Kotschnig, Walter M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until 1971
    • Ladd, Bruce C., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Commercial Affairs and Business Activities, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from 1971
    • Laird, Melvin R., member, U.S. House of Representatives (R–Wisconsin); Secretary of Defense from January 22, 1969
    • Lake, W. Anthony, member, National Security Council staff from 1970 until 1971
    • Le Duc Tho, member, Democratic Republic of Vietnam Politburo; head of the Demcratic Republic of Vietnam delegation to Paris Peace Talks
    • Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore
    • Lon Nol, General and Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1969 until 1972; President of the Khmer Republic from 1972
    • Loomis, Henry, Deputy Director, United States Information Agency from 1969
    • Lord, Winston, Office of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense until 1969; member, National Security Council Planning Staff in 1969 and 1970; member, National Security Council Operations Staff/UN in 1970 and 1971; member, National Security Council staff from 1971
    • Malik, Yakov Alexandrovich, Permanent Representative of the Soviet Union to the United Nations
    • Mansfield, Michael, Senator (D–Montana) from 1952 until 1976; Senate Majority Leader
    • Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
    • McCain, John S., Jr., Admiral, USN; Commander in Chief, CINCPAC, from July 31, 1968, until September 1, 1972
    • McClellan, Robert, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Domestic and International Business
    • McCloskey, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Press Relations, and Special Assistant to the Secretary, from July 1969
    • McCormack, John W., member, U.S. House of Representatives (D–Massachusetts) until 1970; Speaker of the House of Representatives until 1970
    • McCracken, Paul W., Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, from January 1969 until November 1971
    • McGovern, George, Senator, (D–South Dakota); Presidential candidate in 1972
    • McManis, David, member, National Security Council staff in 1970 and 1971; Director of the White House Situation Room in 1971 and 1972
    • Meyer, Armin H., U.S. Ambassador to Iran until May 30, 1969; U.S. Ambassador to Japan from May 27, 1969, until March 27, 1972
    • Meyer, Francis G., Assistant Secretary of State for Administration from September 26, 1969, until May 31, 1971
    • Miki Takeo, Japanese Foreign Minister from 1966 until 1968; Prime Minister from December 1974 until December 1976
    • Mitchell, John, Attorney General from January 20, 1969, until February 15, 1972
    • Miyazawa Kiichi, Japanese Minister of International Trade and Industry from January 14, 1970, until July 5, 1971
    • Monjo, John C., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1969 until 1971
    • Moore, Jonathan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from September 1969 until June 1970
    • Moorer, Thomas H., Admiral, USN; Chief of Naval Operations until July 1, 1970; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 2, 1970
    • Moose, Richard, member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1970
    • Morris, Roger, member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1971
    • Mosbacher, Emil, Jr., Chief of Protocol, Department of State, from January 28, 1969, until June 30, 1972
    • Moynihan, Daniel P., Assistant to the President for Urban Affairs from January until December 1969; Counselor to the President from January 1970 until January 1971
    • Nakasone Yasuhiro, Director General of the Japanese Defense Agency from September 1970
    • Neubert, Joseph W., member, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until June 1970; Acting Deputy Director for Planning, Planning and Coordination Staff, from June 1970
    • Nguyen Van Thieu, President of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)
    • Nixon, Richard M., President of the United States
    • Noyes, James H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from 1971
    • Nutter, G. Warren, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from March 4, 1969
    • O’Connor, Roderic L., Assistant Administrator for East Asia, Agency for International Development, from August 1969 until June 1971; Coordinator for Supporting Assistance from July 1971 until September 1972
    • Ōhira Masayoshi, Japanese Foreign Minister from July 7, 1972
    • Osborn, David Lawrence, Deputy Chief of Mission in Tokyo until July 1970; thereafter Consul General, Hong Kong
    • Osgood, Robert E., Assistant for Programs, National Security Council, in 1969 and 1970; Director of the National Security Council Planning Staff in 1970 and 1971
    • Packard, David, Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett-Packard Co.; Deputy Secretary of Defense from January 24, 1969, until December 13, 1971
    • Paik Doo Jin, Prime Minster of the Republic of Korea from December 19, 1970, until June 3, 1971
    • Park Chung Hee, President of the Republic of Korea
    • Pedersen, Richard F., Counselor, Department of State, from January 23, 1969
    • Peterson, Peter G., Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, and Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy in 1971 and 1972; Secretary of Commerce from January 27, 1972, until December 8, 1972
    • Platt, Nicholas, Chief, Asian Communist Areas Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, from February 1969 until January 1970; Chief, North Asian Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, from January 1970 until March 1971; Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat Staff, from March 1971 until June 1972; Director, Executive Secretariat, from June 1972
    • Pollack, Herman, Director, Office of International Scientific and Technological Affairs, Department of State
    • Pranger, Robert J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia, 1970; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Plans and National Security Council Affairs, 1971
    • Prentice, Colgate S., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from October 1969
    • Pursley, Robert E., Lieutenant General, USAF; Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
    • Renner, John C., Director, Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, from August 1970 until July 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Trade Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, from July 1972
    • Resor, Stanley R., Secretary of the Army until June 30, 1971
    • Richardson, Elliot L., Under Secretary of State from January 23, 1969, until June 23, 1970; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from June 1970
    • Rodman, Peter W., member, National Security Council staff from 1970 until 1972
    • Rogers, William P., Secretary of State from January 21, 1969
    • Samuels, Nathaniel, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from March 28, 1969, until May 31, 1972
    • Satō Eisaku, Prime Minister of Japan until July 6, 1972
    • Saunders, Harold H., member, National Security Council staff from 1969 until 1971
    • Scali, John, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for ABC News until 1971; Special Consultant to the President from 1971
    • Schlesinger, James R., Assistant Director, Bureau of the Budget, from January 1969 until June 1970; Assistant Director, Office of Management and Budget, from July 1970 until August 1971; Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission from August 1971
    • Scott, Hugh, Senator (R–Pennsylvania); Senate Minority Leader
    • Seaborg, Glenn T., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission until 1971
    • Seamans, Robert C., Jr., Secretary of the Air Force from February 15, 1969
    • Shakespeare, Frank, Director, U.S. Information Agency, from February 7, 1969
    • Shimoda Takeso, Japanese Ambassador to the United States from June 28, 1967, until September 1970
    • Shoesmith, Thomas P., Country Director, Republic of China, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, from October 1967 until August 1971; Deputy Chief of Mission in Tokyo from August 1972
    • Shultz, George P., Secretary of Labor from January 20, 1969, until June 10, 1970; first Director of the Office of Management and Budget from June 1970 until May 1972; Secretary of the Treasury from May 16, 1972
    • Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, head of state of Cambodia until 1970; leader of a government-in-exile in Peking from 1970
    • Sisco, Joseph J., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs until February 9, 1969; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs from February 7, 1969
    • Smith, K. Wayne, Director, Policy Analysis Branch, National Security Council, 1971 and 1972
    • Smyser, W. Richard, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia from 1970 until 1972
    • Sneider, Richard L., member, National Security Council Operations Staff/East Asia from May 1969 until September 1969; Deputy Chief of Mission in Japan from September 1969 until July 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August 1972
    • Spiers, Ronald I., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs from August 15 until September 18, 1969; Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs from September 18, 1969
    • Stans, Maurice, Secretary of Commerce from January 20, 1969, until January 27, 1972
    • Steadman, Richard C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, 1969
    • Stein, Herbert, member, Council of Economic Advisers from January 1969 until November 1971; Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers from January 1972
    • Stevenson, John R., Legal Adviser, Department of State, from July 8, 1969
    • Sullivan, William H., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from April 1969
    • Symington, Stuart, Senator (D–Missouri)
    • Tanaka Kakeui, Minister of International Trade and Industry July 1971; Prime Minister of Japan from July 6, 1972
    • Tarr, Curtis W., Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs from 1969 until 1970; Director, Selective Service System, from 1970 until 1972; Under Secretary of State for International Security Affairs from May 1, 1972
    • U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations
    • Thayer, Harry E.T., Asian Communist Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State, until August 1970; National War College from August 1970 until June 1971; advisor on political affairs at USUN from June 1971
    • Torbert, Horace Gates, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations until October 1970
    • Trezise, Philip H., Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, until July 7, 1969; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from July 8, 1969, until November 27, 1971
    • Ushiba Nobuhiko, Japanese Ambassador to the United States from September 21, 1970
    • Volcker, Paul A., Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs from January 1969
    • Wakaizumi Kei, Professor at Kyoto Sangyo University and confidant of Japanese Prime Minister Sato; used the alias “Yoshida” in secret telephone conversations with Henry Kissinger
    • Walters, Vernon A., Lieutenant General, USA; Military Attaché to Paris until March 1971; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence from May 2, 1972
    • Wheeler, Earle G., General, USA; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until July 2, 1970
    • Wickel, James J., Interpreter for the Department of State; Special Assistant in the Executive Section of the Tokyo Embassy; Political Officer from July 1972
    • Wilson, James Harold, British Prime Minister until June 19, 1970, and from 1974
    • Wilson, James M., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August 1970; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary, February 1972; U.S. Representative for Micronesian status negotiations from November 1972
    • Wright, W. Marshall, member, National Security Council Operations Staff/African and UN Affairs from June 1970 until April 1972; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from April until December 1972; thereafter, Acting Assistant Secretary from December 1972
    • Yost, Charles W., U.S. Representative to the United Nations from January 22, 1969, until February 25, 1971
    • Zhou Enlai, see Chou En-lai
    • Ziegler, Ronald, White House Press Secretary from 1969
    • Zumwalt, Elmo R., Jr., Admiral, USN; Chief of Naval Operations from July 1, 1970